Obadiah Meets Elijah

18 Now it happened ^(A)after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab, and ^(B)I will provide rain on the face of the earth.”

²⁵ But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel ^(A)in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a ^[a]severe famine came over all the land;

¹⁷ Elijah was ^(A)a man with a nature like ours, and ^(B)he prayed ^[a]earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for ^(C)three years and six months.